Where I have lived, the companies own the medallion and just hire drivers.

Are you on a first name basis with your city’s cabdrivers? Because I don’t see a difference between one set of strangers and another.

This is how I always felt, but then we always trust strangers. There’s probably more transparency now than in the past.

So many women I know have horror stories from cabs. At least with Lyft and Uber they’re able to identify the offender.

We were always in the era of renting rides and homes from strangers. They just used to be called “cab drivers” and “landlords” and, in some cases, “Norman Bates.” Hell, hitchhiking used to be common. My mom did it all the time. Then a couple of high-profile cases of men murdering teenage girls who were hitchhiking…

I get it. I’d be pissed if someone infinitely more famous than I am used my dead brother’s work as “fair use”. I’d want to get paid!

Your characterization of this as Trudeau “boasting” that he “wanted to beat the shite out of an indigenous person” is an extreme misrepresentation. First, it was a charity boxing match - no one was going to get hurt. Second, he described Brazeau as the perfect foil to the “rich, pretty boy, urban elite” image his…

This is everyone’s favourite Nice Guy PM Trudeau boasting about the fact he deliberately wanted to beat the shite out of an indigenous person.

“My life is over.”

I was just thinking the exact same thing.

You’re not mistaken. The last King in the North before Robb was Torrhen Stark, The King who Knelt. He surrendered to Aegon the Conqueror rather than get his people roasted.

Because it’s not just a “furniture store”, for a lot of people. It is a “finally!” moment-they finally have access to better quality items at very affordable prices. It’s not about it just being another store, it’s about access.

IKEA is extremely affordable, and offers decent minimalist design. Usually furniture that cheap is extremely ugly, but IKEA furniture is just plain. When my partner and I had to buy a bed and a coach, the cheapest IKEA pieces were all that we could afford, and they don’t look awful and tacky the way almost anything…

Wait, are you saying that you don’t need something that you already have, and therefore can’t understand the appeal to others who might have a need for said thing?

Yeah, there’s this huge gap in furniture buying—either you buy some particle-board garbage from Walmart that falls apart if you look at it wrong, or you spend so much money at a big-box furniture store that you have to get the purchase financed like you’re buying a used car. IKEA straddles that gap, and they’re one of…

Please give your SIL a high five for me and tell her random internet people support her standing up for her daughter. We’re so conditioned as women to not make a scene when men are inappropriate but that is exactly what needs to happen so they can respect damn boundaries. Seriously, she rocks.

Look, it’s one thing to continue to send your adult grandchildren $5 or give them candy or fawn over them like babies. It’s another to be touching their bodies. This is not like gentle back scratches or pats on the head. This is absolutely about thinking that there’s something inherently funny in humiliating someone.…

“Well, maybe I will never kiss my granddaughter again, how do you like that?!”

The fact that you’re “flummoxed” that some of us are (rightly) concerned that you are conflating sexualization with infantilization is weirding me out.

Lol yeah I’ll bet he’d be devastated...for being called the eff put on being gross.